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PART 2: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE READING COMPREHENSION (TEXTS, TASKS, TEACHER KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES)

Oct. 5: What key instructional shifts are needed to implement the Common Core State Standards?

Never underestimate the power of giving young children some choice, a voice, and a digital tool (or two)!

ACTIVITY: Map out sections of Common Core Standards and understand key instructional shifts - see slides for more info

HOMEWORK:
1. Read Magic Treehouse Vacation Under the Volcano
  • TEXT: Think about main ideas and big idea(s)
  • TEXT: Think about genre and text structures? Fictional? Non-fiction?
  • TASK/TEACHER: Think about B/D/A activity ideas;
  • READER: What does the reader bring?

2. Read Cornett Ch. 4: Assessment (organize, create, and adjust reading groups based on need)

3. Finish adding your notes to your row on the Student Interview Class Database

Oct. 10:
What key instructional shifts are needed to implement the Common Core State Standards?

Today's Powerpoint Slides:
Day 8 CCSS & Key Shifts.pptx


  • Feedback from Student Interview and Digital Text/Tool Review: How do YOU look on paper (or digitally) compared to your peers? Is it good enough to land you an interview and/or impress others wanting to hire creative and reflective teachers (who can spell, use correct grammar, and follow directions)?
  • Continue mapping patterns across CCSS
  • CCSS Appendix A on Text Complexity (for more background):
    CCSS ELA Appendix_A_Text Complexity and Terms.pdf

Homework:
Book Launch for Magic Treehouse (download and type your ideas into this template; Rename the file LAST NAME_MTH Book Launch Part 1) - WRITE YOUR BOOK LAUNCH FOR YOUR ASSIGNED SECTION OF THE BOOK: Part 1 (Ch. 1-3); Part 2 (Ch. 4-6), Part 3 (Ch. 7-10)


EXTRA TOPIC:
How can student interview data inform reading instruction?
How do we organize, create, and adjust guided reading groups based on need?


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Oct. 12: How do text characteristics influence comprehension? Part 1
Class Activity: Van den Broek's Building a Representation of Text: Using Connections to Build Coherence
Slideshow:
Day 10 Van den Broek slides.pptx


Supplemental resources:
Homework:
  1. Read Cornett, Ch. 5 (Text Characteristics)
  2. Comprehension Self-Assessment (due Tues. Oct. 24)
  3. Begin studying for Quiz #1 (on Oct. 24): Review the topics in your syllabus, readings, notes, and class activities; Please note: In our next class you will be assigned a section to generate three possible quiz questions to type into this Google Doc


Oct. 17: How do text characteristics influence comprehension? Part 2

Class Activity:
  • Review feedback on MTH Book Launch assignment (and revising scoring)
  • Review "What Is Comprehension" and issues of text complexity and coherence to continue discussion on what makes text easy or hard to comprehend.

Homework:
  1. Redo just the book launch part of MTH Book Launch Part 1 - focus your launch ONLY on getting students ready to read and comprehend your assigned section of book (first part of word document below)
  2. Complete MTH Part 2: Generate During Reading Comprehension Questions for your section of Magic Treehouse - Please PRINT OUT for Thursday so I can collect and give you feedback
    MTH Part 1 Book Launch Part 2 During Reading Questions.docx
  3. Generate three possible quiz questions in your assigned section to help study for Quiz 1: Type into this Google Docand sign your name after each idea
  4. Please note: Flipgrid Reflection #3 is POSTPONED until next week.

Oct. 19: How do text characteristics influence comprehension? Part 3

  1. Generating Mental Representations of Expository Text Structures - discuss coherence in narrative texts and expository texts with Olympics Worksheet
  2. High Priority Comprehension Processes

Today's Powerpoint Slides:
Day 12 CPS Process Revised.pptx


Homework:
  • Study for Quiz - use this Google Doc
  • Finish the remaining Olympic text structures - create a visual organizer, circle the text markers that help establish coherence, and identify the informational text type - bring to pass in on Tuesday
  • Complete Comprehension Self-Assessment (due Tues. Oct. 24)
  • Challenges of Reading Web-Based Informational Texts: Read Coiro (2005) Making Sense of Online Texts for four strategy lessons to address challenges of locating, navigating, evaluating, and synthesizing
    Coiro 2005 EdLeadership Four Skills.pdf
  • Flipgrid Reflection #3: What Is Comprehension?
    • What did you learn about comprehension from recent class activities (referential and causal connections, sentences about ice cream; boy and melting butter; expository text structures) and Cornett's Chapter 5 on the explicit teaching of comprehension strategies?
    • How are these activities and readings connected?
    • How will this influence how you teach comprehension?
Oct. 24: What kinds of guided comprehension activities cut across all three parts of the B/D/A Framework?

  • QUIZ #1
  • Introduction to comprehension activities that can be used before, during, and after reading (includes Graphic Organizers, Vocabulary [Frayer Model], and Thinglink (more to come next week)

Today's Powerpoint Slides:
Day 14 BDA Comp Ideas Part1.pptx


Explore Using Thinglink to build skills in vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, engagement, and personal inquiry!

Homework:


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